In The Master Switch, Tim Wu quips that “the future of Apple and Google will form the future of America and the world”. At heart is an age old idea that one singular force has the ability to shape the entire world. In 1927, Aldous Huxley stated that "the future of America is the future of the world”. Almost a century later, it is no longer countries that wield the most...

When I first read that Yo had raised $1 million of VC funding, I could not help but think that the tech industry might be in another bubble. I had always rejected the notion that Silicon Valley was in a bubble. As I grew up, technology kept innovating and achieving crazier and more amazing feats. I have always believed that technology could make the world a better place. As such, I was never cynical when companies and startups touted these visions of changing the world...

It may seem like Google Hangouts has been around forever; but it’s actually a relatively recent creation, originally conceived to solve Google messaging fragmentation of yore. Today, its founding mission is almost complete, taking the company’s offerings from: Talk, Android’s SMS app, Google+ Messenger and Voice to simply Hangouts and, unfortunately for now, Google Voice. What’s now called Hangouts, was originally codenamed...

With Chromebooks, the phrase often thrown around in reviews is “good enough”. All Chromebooks are a perilous balance between price and what specs you are getting for said price. The first good enough Chrome OS device was the 2012 Samsung Chromebook. At $249, it was the first Chromebook people saw and bought. With its MacBook Air-like appearance, it looked nice, was fast, and had a good enough screen and keyboard.

In 2009, I remember reading about the Microsoft Courier and after watching that cool concept video thinking that, “Microsoft has got something really cool here.” I immediately saw the device's use case for taking notes at school and just journaling in general. In my mind, it was a device that could replace pen and paper in a way that the future has been promising us forever...

At their annual BUILD Conference, Microsoft announced an update to their mobile operating system. Though just a point update in name, Windows Phone 8.1 introduces a major feature among others more minor ones and design tweaks which will work to greatly improve WP's appeal...

Besides April Fool's jokes, Google appears to be slowly releasing Android 4.4.3 tonight. A Google+ user from Thailand has posted a video of his Nexus 7 (2012) receiving the update. The update, according to Android Police, is expected to carry numerous...

Continuing in a tradition of “radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity,” the TED Conference announced an Artificial Intelligence XPRIZE today. The goal of TED curator Chris Andersen and Peter Diamandis, founder of the X PRIZE foundation, is to have an AI capable of giving a TED talk “so compelling...